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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 21, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via AFP)

'We'll measure success by the wars we end or never get into'

‘I want to be a peacemaker, stop all wars’: Trump hails hostage releases in inaugural address

By AFP, Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Incoming US president promises new ‘golden age’ as he takes oath for historic second term; NYC rabbi offers prayer for remaining 94 hostages held by terror groups in Gaza

US President Donald Trump takes the oath of office during the 60th presidential inauguration, in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool photo via AP)

Trump returns to office, vowing dramatic change and promising American ‘golden age’

By AP and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) is seen with the head of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, in southern Gaza's Rafah, June 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 21: Katz says he’ll begin interviewing candidates for Halevi’s replacement as IDF chief

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Slain terrorist a Moroccan national with US green card who was visiting Israel * Hamas: 4 female hostages to be released Saturday * Herzog thanks Qatar PM for mediation efforts

10:03 pm

Ukraine hoping Knesset passes bill that would see Israel hand over Russian-made weapons seized from Hezbollah
9:42 pm

Shin Bet says it questioned Tel Aviv stabber upon his entry into country but didn't find grounds to hold him
9:39 pm

Trump ends Secret Service protection for ex-adviser Bolton, an alleged Iranian target

Zelensky lauds Trump's 'peace through strength policy'

Netanyahu, congratulating Trump, predicts ‘best days’ of Israel-US relations ahead

By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff

As US president inaugurated, Israeli leaders thank him for help with hostage deal, PM ‘looks forward’ to toppling Hamas with his help; reports say premier may go to DC next month

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulations US President Donald Trump on his second inauguration, in a video message posted January 20, 2025. (Screen capture via GPO)

US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance and first lady Melania Trump greet families of hostages held in Gaza, during an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event at Capital One Arena, January 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan. 21: Day 473 – Trump hails Gaza ceasefire during inauguration

By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid

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US President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

New order pausing foreign aid likely to impact Palestinians

Trump ‘not confident’ Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal will hold through all 3 phases

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

New US president ‘might’ help rebuild Gaza, which has ‘phenomenal location’; Hamas can’t govern Strip – ‘they didn’t exactly run it well’; Israeli-Saudi normalization may come ‘soon’

Sen. Marco Rubio attends the 60th US Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)

US Senate confirms Rubio as secretary of state, giving Trump 1st member of Cabinet

By AP and ToI Staff

President Donald Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles (left) and Miriam Adelson arrive before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)

Pro-Israel megadonor Miriam Adelson takes center stage at Trump’s inauguration

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Doron Steinbrecher (in black) reunites with her family at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, January 19, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)

Former hostage says she underwent surgery without anesthesia

‘I thought I’d die in Gaza’: First testimonies from freed hostages released

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

Former captives quoted saying they ‘were scared to death’ during Hamas transfer in Gaza City; some hardly saw daylight in 471 days; all of them knew what happened on October 7

Released hostages (L-R) Doron Steinbrecher, Emily Damari and Romi Gonen reunite with their mothers shortly after returning to Israel after 471 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, January 19, 2025. (IDF)

‘I came back alive!’: Videos show freed hostages reuniting with their mothers

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Supporters and relatives of hostages held captive in Gaza react while watching a live TV broadcast on the release of three Israeli hostages, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, January 19, 2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

‘I’m alive again, my beloveds’: Ex-hostages send first messages after Gaza captivity

Sydney childcare center torched in latest antisemitic attack in Australia

Police say they are stepping up investigations after building was graffitied with anti-Jewish slogans and then burnt, causing massive damage but no injuries

A daycare center is set on fire in Sydney, Australia, with antisemitic graffiti next to it on January 21, 2025. (Screencapture/X)

Police stand near houses vandalized with anti-Israel slogans in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, Australia, December 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australia probing whether ‘foreign actors’ behind antisemitic surge, after daycare torched

Menachem Rosensaft

Kudos to President Trump for making the Gaza ceasefire possible

I’m no Trump supporter, but if he hadn’t read Netanyahu the riot act, the Israel-Hamas war would probably still be in full force.

Don’t knock the Levin-Sa’ar plan, it’s a surrender in disguise

The revised reform proposal caves in on the overhaul’s key feature: total government control over judicial selection

Bazy Swirsky Rubin

We are still on miluim-reserve duty

After a week of holding it all together, I couldn’t wait for him to come from the army and take the next shift. Not that he was going to.

A fragile peace: The potential risks from Israel’s neighboring states

Complacency is not an option in the face of Egypt’s military buildup and the fragility of Jordan’s monarchy

Pictures of five female Israeli soldiers who are held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are displayed ahead of a weekly protest by families to demand their release, in Tel Aviv, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Hamas confirms 4 female hostages to be released on Saturday, without naming them

By AFP, Amy Spiro, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

IDF says displaced Palestinians can return to north Gaza next week if Hamas upholds truce; Mossad, Shin Bet chiefs in Cairo for talks with Egyptian intel chief

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, right, and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani at a joint press conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, January 20, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem, GPO)

Sa’ar says a reformed Palestinian Authority could be involved in governing Gaza

By Rossella Tercatin

Displaced Palestinians return to their homes on the second day of the hostage release-ceasefire deal between the Hamas terror group and Israel in Jabalia, in the central Gaza Strip, January 20, 2025. (Ali Hassan/ Flash90)

Aid trucks flow into Gaza, displaced residents start returning home as truce holds

By Agencies, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Analysis

As ceasefire begins, Netanyahu faces critical 6 weeks for both country and coalition

At start of hostage-ceasefire process, prime minister offers assertions that seem to contradict some terms of the agreement, and could pose a major roadblock to the next round of talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at his office at the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Israeli settlers flash middle fingers from rooftops as they taunt Palestinian locals near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, as they mark a yearly Jewish religious event in Hebron in the West Bank on November 23, 2024. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

On day one, Trump rolls back Biden sanctions regime targeting violent Israeli settlers

US president heeds pleas Israeli officials have been making for months, signing executive order hours after another rampage targets northern West Bank Palestinian village

Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich (right) with Otzma Yehudit party head MK Itamar Ben Gvir in the Knesset, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israeli right praises Trump’s reversal of sanctions on violent settlers

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, is seen in an undated photo. (Oliver de la haye/iStock)

Trump revokes Biden order that ended 2020 sanctions targeting the ICC

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

This handout photo shows emergency responders at the scene where two Israelis were shot, near the West Bank outpost of Ramat Gilad, January 20, 2025. (Magen David Adom)

2 Israelis injured, apparently shot by cop, as settlers attack West Bank Palestinians

By Emanuel Fabian

Men in 20s taken to hospital in critical and serious condition; they reportedly attacked an officer as others set fire to homes and cars in nearby Palestinian villages

Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during the inaugural parade inside Capitol One Arena in Washington, on January 20, 2025. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

Elon Musk’s straight-armed gesture at inauguration ignites comparisons to Nazi salute

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Musk dismisses criticism of salute during his speech as a ‘tired attack’ as some Jewish groups condemn him and some defend him; some on far right celebrate moment

A man in a Hamas headband at an anti-Israel protest in New York City, January 6, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

21% of American voters back Hamas over Israel — poll

Israeli troops and their vehicles in the center of Jenin in the West Bank on September 5, 2024. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

IDF launches major counterterror raid in West Bank’s Jenin, expected to last days

By Emanuel Fabian

Operation Iron Wall begins with drone strikes on terror infrastructure; large numbers of troops enter city; 10 Palestinians said killed, 40 wounded

Col. Shemer Raviv, the commander of the Paran Regional Brigade, on the Israel-Egypt border, January 12, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Interview

On Egypt border, senior IDF officer warns quietest ‘front’ has potential to erupt

By Emanuel Fabian

Col. Shemer Raviv details challenges on 200-kilometer border for which he is responsible, including the increasing threat of drones

Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen in the Knesset, January 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Interview

His far-right party now in the opposition, rebel MK Almog Cohen is in political limbo

Freshman lawmaker declines to resign with rest of his Otzma Yehudit faction, but won’t say if he considers himself part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside relatives of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Rescued hostage Noa Argamani is immediately behind Trump. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Trump invites hostages’ families on stage, before announcing pardon of ‘Jan. 6 hostages’

Relatives of abductees as well as freed hostage Noa Argamani welcomed by US president at rally; he declares: ‘More are coming home every day now; we never stopped praying for you’

An anti-Israel protester appears to be wearing a Hamas headband and carrying an approximation of the terror group's flag at a rally in New York City on May 18, 2024. (John Lamparski / AFP)

Trump order appears to target some foreigners participating in anti-Israel protests

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Violent rioters, loyal to US President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Trump issues sweeping pardon of supporters charged in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

By AP

At Trump inauguration event in Jerusalem, adulation meets undercurrent of unease

By Deborah Danan

Ardent fans of US president attending event at museum founded by evangelical pastor express discomfort over hostage-ceasefire deal pushed over finish line by Republican leader

People walk next to a sign congratulating US President Donald Trump for his victory in the US presidential election in central Jerusalem, January 20, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A person waves an Israeli flag with the transgender pride flag superimposed on it as thousands take part in the annual LGBTQ Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on May 30, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli LGBTQ orgs slam Trump’s anti-trans measures, warn they could come to Israel

US President Joe Biden, right, and first lady Jill Biden stand before greeting President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump upon arriving at the White House, January 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In final hours of presidency, Biden issues pardons to ward off potential Trump ‘revenge’

By Colleen Long and Zeke Miller

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch (front, in black jacket) visits author Yossi Klein Halevi, with a cohort of young Reform rabbis, January, 2025. (Courtesy/Stephen Wise Free Synagogue)

Interview

More ‘sober’ US Reform movement and Israelis reach new understandings, lead rabbi says

After Israel trip, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of New York’s Stephen Wise Free Synagogue says visit to northern, southern borders helped young US rabbis better grasp Mideast challenges

Illustrative: People walk next to pictures of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, Jerusalem, January 12, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Our hearts are captive

Israelis choose ‘hostages’ as Academy of the Hebrew Language’s word of 2024

Word ‘hatufim’ revealed to mark Hebrew Language Day, beating Hebrew words for ‘heroism,’ ‘approved for publication’ — which precedes IDF death announcements — by thousands of votes

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US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, January 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump leaves WHO and climate accord, among massive changes to US policy on first day

By AP

A sign for credit agency Moody's, on August 13, 2010, in New York. (AP/ Mark Lennihan)

Moody’s: Durable Hamas ceasefire would fend off further Israel credit rating downgrades

By Sharon Wrobel

The president of the Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council Aidarous Al-Zubaidi sits for an interview, Sept. 22, 2023, in New York. (AP/Ted Shaffrey)

Yemen vice president says Trump’s return pivotal in fight against Iran backed-Houthis

By Reuters and ToI Staff

The Bank of Israel's main offices in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Bank of Israel calls for 2025 budget passage without changes to gain markets’ trust

By Sharon Wrobel and Reuters

The comedian Dave Chappelle tells an extended anecdote about President Jimmy Carter's Middle East diplomacy during an appearance on 'Saturday Night Live' on January 18, 2025. (Screenshot)

On ‘SNL,’ Dave Chappelle implores Trump to have empathy for Palestinians

By PHILISSA CRAMER

A Houthi supporter holds a mock missile during a protest marking Jerusalem Day in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman, File)

Houthis claim they will now limit Red Sea attacks to Israeli ships

A pro-Palestinian protest at the Istanbul port, December, 1, 2024. (Emrah Gurel/AP)

Turkey could restart Israel trade if Gaza peace proves permanent, business group says

By Reuters and ToI Staff

The Day That Will Come. (Screenshot)

Bright side bulletinNovel ‘newspaper’ offers hopeful post-Oct. 7 visions

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